UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore is not autoupdating

I’ve installed Updraft myself to check it out and I seem to have the same issue, reached out to Updraft again to see if we can help eachother out here. I’ll let you know once I know more ??

It’s a very big mistery ?? thanks for your help! If we don’t hear before Christmas have a very magic and happy Holidays!

It is indeed. No problem and the same to you!

The issue is that the UpdraftPlus plugin is too big for WordPress to update in the background. (When de-activating Updraft it will update just fine). And since it’s an issue with their plugin there isn’t much I can do about it ??

• This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by Papin Schipper.

Oh sad to know this. Is the only one plugin unable to auto update. Thanks for the help and the information!

The UpdraftPlus plugin is 7 MB is this too big? Seems not very big…

This is what Updraft told me: “The most likely reason for a failure is lack of disk space or hosting resources; UpdraftPlus is larger than the average plugin because it carries a few SDKs for different remote storage methods, so, it takes WP longer than most to unzip it.”

I did a quick check but most plugins I’m using are <1MB and one or two bigger plugins are 3MB so seems like 7MB is quite big for a plugin.

I am on a dedicated VPS so is not possible i have space issue ( i have big hard drive) and high hosting resources.

I cannot believe there are no solution, i will try to report this issue also to the UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore plugin:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/unable-to-auto-update-this-plugin/

• This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by peopleinside.

I’ve honestly got no idea, this plugin uses default WordPress functions to update so I find it unlikely that there is any issue there. I hope the guys over at Updraft can help you and if they need me to do something to the plugin I’m happy to help ??

Thank you, will be nice hear maybe some explain also from WordPress… if the issue is not in your plugin or in the other. Thanks for your great help ??

Resolved https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/unable-to-auto-update-this-plugin/#post-11140447

So if I understand it correctly the line define('WP_CRON_LOCK_TIMEOUT', 300); fixed it?

I made two changes:
1. Discovered into the plugin there are a settings in advance settings to check for have the plugin to be auto updated so i don’t know if the plugin are using an api that create issue. In any case i enable this for all websites.

Also i added the string mentionated in wp-config.php

Maybe for test more i need remove the line from wp-config.php and see if the issue start to be again, if not is the check box on the plugin settings ( UpdraftPlus ) that need to be checked.

If you could try that and let me know I could maybe add that line to the plugin ??

OK, the test is in progress… i should be able to say something in the next 48 hours